Amidst the rubble, the lens of photographer and director Ziad al-Homsi was there to capture the city’s battered reality. The carpet of Douma’s historical mosque lying under debris, civilians’ houses ransacked and thousands of people living in the dark with no electricity for weeks at a time. Despite the tragedy, Douma’s people looked at the situation as a challenge, joining their hands together to clean the streets and fix what is broken in their city and their souls, representing the true meaning of the word “Revolution”.

Despite being military par excellence, Turkish presence has been widely welcomed by different segments of Syrian society in Idlib countryside and the Euphrates Shield areas, north of Aleppo. The reason for that being its contribution to improving the living condition of these areas, for the first time since the outbreak of the uprising in 2011.